Emily Dickinson's Life
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- Emily Dickinson's life and work
- Born December 10 1830 Died May 15 1886
- Personal Life
- Her childhood and youth was filled with schooling, reading, exploration of nature, religious activites, significant firendships
- Deaths of friends and relatives, such as her cousin Sophia Holland prompted questions about death and immorality
- Close proximity to town cemetery and frequent burials influenced her work
- Deaths of friends and relatives, such as her cousin Sophia Holland prompted questions about death and immorality
- Her most intense writing years consumed the decade of her late 20s and early 30s, when she wrote over 1100 poems
- Writing became increasingly important in her early 20s
- Ltters to her brother revealed a growing sense of difference between herself and others
- "What makes a few of us so different from others? Its a question I often ask myself"
- Ltters to her brother revealed a growing sense of difference between herself and others
- The writing Years (1855-1865)
- Personal Life
- Her childhood and youth was filled with schooling, reading, exploration of nature, religious activites, significant firendships
- Deaths of friends and relatives, such as her cousin Sophia Holland prompted questions about death and immorality
- Close proximity to town cemetery and frequent burials influenced her work
- Deaths of friends and relatives, such as her cousin Sophia Holland prompted questions about death and immorality
- Her most intense writing years consumed the decade of her late 20s and early 30s, when she wrote over 1100 poems
- Writing became increasingly important in her early 20s
- Ltters to her brother revealed a growing sense of difference between herself and others
- "What makes a few of us so different from others? Its a question I often ask myself"
- Ltters to her brother revealed a growing sense of difference between herself and others
- The writing Years (1855-1865)
- Letters from 1858 and early 1861 indicate a serious and troubled romantic atachment that some scholars believe drove Dickinson's creative output.
- Her last visits out of Amherst were in 1865, when she underwent treatment for a painful eye condition
- Significant fiendships such as those with Samuel Bowles, Rev. Edward Dwight and Rev. Charles Wadsworth changed during this time, and Dickinson began to feel an increasing need for a "preceptor" to cope with her outpouring of verse with questions about publications
- 1864- Five of the Dickinson poems known to have been published in her lifetime appear in newspapers, including the Drum Beat, the Brooklyn Daily Union, and the Round Table
- Dickinson begins collecting her poems into small packers, "fascicles". This practice continues until 1846.
- 1855, Family moves back to repurchased and remodelled Homestead
- Writing became increasingly important in her early 20s
- Lived in Amhurst,had a fond attachment to her house in North Pleasant Street
- Exceptional education for a young Newv England woman in the 19th century,
- Attended Amherst Academy before entering Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in 1847, for one year
- Later Years
- Many strong friendships with females
- Although she was a recluse, she entetained significant visitors such as Thomas Wentworth Higginson
- Her definition of poetry "If I read a book and it makes my body so cold no fire can warm me I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only way I know it. Is there any other way?"
- Was romantically involved with Judge Otis Phillips Lord, a friend of her father
- Drafts of letters to Lord suggest she considered marrying him, though she never did
- Marked by lllness and death
- Father's death in 1874, Mother's stroke in 1875, Nephew Gib's death, age 8, in 1883, Otis Lord's death in 1884, Helen Hunt Jackson;s death in 1885
- Ill after nephew died, " The crisis of the sorrow of so many years is all that tires me
- Remained in poor death until she died aged 55, buried in town cemetery
- Peoms by Emily Dickinson, edited by Mabel Loomis Todd and T.W Higginson is published by Roberts Brother's of Boston
- Never married
- Evidence she received a marriage proposal from George H. Gould, a graduate of Amherst College
- Her childhood and youth was filled with schooling, reading, exploration of nature, religious activites, significant firendships
- Letters from 1858 and early 1861 indicate a serious and troubled romantic atachment that some scholars believe drove Dickinson's creative output.
- Her last visits out of Amherst were in 1865, when she underwent treatment for a painful eye condition
- Significant fiendships such as those with Samuel Bowles, Rev. Edward Dwight and Rev. Charles Wadsworth changed during this time, and Dickinson began to feel an increasing need for a "preceptor" to cope with her outpouring of verse with questions about publications
- 1864- Five of the Dickinson poems known to have been published in her lifetime appear in newspapers, including the Drum Beat, the Brooklyn Daily Union, and the Round Table
- Dickinson begins collecting her poems into small packers, "fascicles". This practice continues until 1846.
- 1855, Family moves back to repurchased and remodelled Homestead
- Personal Life
- Writing became increasingly important in her early 20s
- Lived in Amhurst,had a fond attachment to her house in North Pleasant Street
- Exceptional education for a young Newv England woman in the 19th century,
- Attended Amherst Academy before entering Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in 1847, for one year
- Later Years
- Many strong friendships with females
- Although she was a recluse, she entetained significant visitors such as Thomas Wentworth Higginson
- Her definition of poetry "If I read a book and it makes my body so cold no fire can warm me I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only way I know it. Is there any other way?"
- Was romantically involved with Judge Otis Phillips Lord, a friend of her father
- Drafts of letters to Lord suggest she considered marrying him, though she never did
- Marked by lllness and death
- Father's death in 1874, Mother's stroke in 1875, Nephew Gib's death, age 8, in 1883, Otis Lord's death in 1884, Helen Hunt Jackson;s death in 1885
- Ill after nephew died, " The crisis of the sorrow of so many years is all that tires me
- Remained in poor death until she died aged 55, buried in town cemetery
- Peoms by Emily Dickinson, edited by Mabel Loomis Todd and T.W Higginson is published by Roberts Brother's of Boston
- Never married
- Evidence she received a marriage proposal from George H. Gould, a graduate of Amherst College
- Her childhood and youth was filled with schooling, reading, exploration of nature, religious activites, significant firendships
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